I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light... I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends--an attainment conditioned in this way by universality--there is formed a s...ystem of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the... lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other. In writing we did better wor...k than either could do alone. While she is slow and analytical in composition, I am rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic. She supplied the facts and statistics, I the philosophy and rhetoric, and, together, we have made arguments that have stood unshaken through the storms of long years.... So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--uni...ted, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So, too, no doubt, Homer had his Homer, and Orpheus his Orpheus, in the dim antiquity which preceded them. The mythological system... of the ancients,--and it is still the mythology of the moderns, the poem of mankind,--interwoven so wonderfully with their astronomy, and matching in grandeur and harmony the architecture of the heavens themselves, seems to point to a time when a mightier genius inhabited the earth. But, after all, man is the great poet, and not Homer nor Shakespeare; and our language itself, and the common arts of life, are his work. Poetry is so universally true and independent of experience that it does not need any particular biography to illustrate it, but we refer it sooner or later to some Orpheus or Linus, and after ages to the genius of humanity and the gods themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town... steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretching acre upon acre into the far distance. High over head hangs the stagnant pall of its fetid breath, reddened with light from myriad eyes endlessly, everywhere blinking. Thousands of acres of cellular tissue, the city's flesh outspreads layer upon layer, enmeshed by an intricate network of veins and arteries radiating into the gloom, and in them, with muffled, persistent roar, circulating as the blood circulates in your veins, is the almost ceaseless beat of the activity to whose necessities it all conforms. The poisonous waste is drawn from the system of this gigantic creature by infinitely ramifying, thread-like ducts, gathering at their sensitive terminals matter destructive of its life, hurrying it to millions of small intestines to be collected in turn by larger, flowing to the great sewers, on to the drainage canal, and finally to the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »